To improve system performance and staff well-being, there needs to be a focus on the cultural context of health and care work.
There is wide agreement that safety culture is an important concept, as organisations with a positive safety culture are thought to be more likely to learn openly and effectively from failure and adapt their working practices appropriately. The converse is true for a weak safety culture, which has been implicated as a significant contributory factor in many catastrophic organisational incidents, including high profile healthcare occrrences.
Most modern healthcare systems have therefore embraced the notion of building a positive safety culture. which has been. The
challenge lies in how this can be achieved in everyday care work.
